Scoville grad­u­at­ed from Tri-State Coll­ege, An­go­la, In­di­a­na (BS 1892) and Hir­am Coll­ege, Hir­am, Ohio (AB 1897, AM 1898). He then went into the evan­gel­ism field, but al­so helped found the Me­tro­pol­i­tan Church in Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois. He held evan­gel­ism cam­paigns over­seas in 1900, in Aus­tral­ia in 1912, and through­out America. His works in­clude:

• “The Lordship of Christ,” Cen­ten­ni­al Con­ven­tion Re­port, ed­it­ed by W. R. War­ren (Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio: Stan­dard Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, 1910), pp. 472-6
• “Day of the Evangelists,” Cen­ten­ni­al Con­ven­tion Re­port, ed­it­ed by W. R. War­ren (Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio: Stan­dard Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, 1910), p. 585
• “Closing Session,” Cen­ten­ni­al Con­ven­tion Re­port, ed­it­ed by W. R. War­ren (Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio: Stan­dard Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, 1910), pp. 601-14
• Wonder Hymns of Faith, with J. E. Sturgis & W. E. M. Hack­le­man (Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio: The Stand­ard Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, circa 1923)

Hymns

1. Christ Is King
2. Great Change, The
3. Lord, Is It I?